Awaken to Your Destiny

You are not a drop in the ocean;

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

The universe experiences itself through you

for a brief moment called life.

Eckhart Tolle

Pursuing self-esteem can be motivating,

but other sources of motivation, such as

goals that are good for the self and others,

can provide the same motivation

without the costs.

Jennifer Crocker & Lora Park

Jo Frederiks

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

I believe that we are all creative beings and

that you were placed here on this earth

to create something of value to the world.

Something that will help others break free,

something that lights you up with passion and

something that is larger than just you.

Mastin Kipp

Service to others is the rent you pay

for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue, and it only does so as the side

effect of one's personal dedication to a cause

greater than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

If you want to live a happy life,

tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Albert Einstein

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and

go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life's most important and urgent question is:

what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

The thing about real life is that important events

don't announce themselves... Usually something

that is going to change your whole life is

a memory before you can stop and

be impressed about it.

Edith Schaeffer

The really important kind of freedom involves

attention, and awareness, and discipline, and

effort, and being able truly to care about other

people and to sacrifice for them, over and over,

in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Everything that's happened in your life

up until now has been preparing you

to live your purpose. These have been lessons

and now it's your time to step into your purpose

and make your mark. You are stronger than

your circumstances and what other people say.

There is something within you that is only

yours to give. Give us all you've got.

Mastin Kipp

Animal Holocaust

Auschwitz begins wherever someone

 looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:

they're only animals.

Theodor Adorno

Do you know why so many survivors of

the Holocaust are vegan? Because

they know what it's like to be

treated like an animal.

Chuck Palahniuk

Human beings see oppression vividly

when they are the victims. Otherwise

they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every.Day.

Holocaust victims were treated like animals,

and so logically we can conclude that

animals are treated like Holocaust victims.

Matt Prescott

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy

and disbelieves in those of his own side,

without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

George Orwell

Jo Frederiks

Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an

enterprise of cruelty which rivals anything that

the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it,

in that ours is an enterprise without end,

self-regenerating, bringing animals ceaselessly

into the world for the purpose of killing them.

John Maxwell Coetzee

Our grandchildren will ask us one day:

Where were you during the Holocaust

of the animals? What did you do against

those horrifying crimes? We won't be

able to offer the same excuse for

the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

When Will We Ever Learn

Only when we have become non violent

towards all life will we have learned

to live well with others.

César Chávez

'Never again' is not about what others shouldn't

do to us. It's about what we shouldn't do

to others. 'Never again' means that we must

never again perpetrate mass atrocities

against other living beings.

Alex Hershaft

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer